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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Actually you are experiencing a generation-wide phenomenon for people between the ages of 18-40. I call it 'technology overload' and you described it perfectly. It's not that you have ADD (or whatever it's called now), it's more like you're juggling 15 balls and are constantly worried you're dropping one of them. As more and more "balls" are thrown your way (Twitter, the latest smart phone, some cool app or Linked In or whatever) you feel a kind of panic. There's no way of "dealing" with that except in these two ways:
1. Become a great juggler
2. Disconnect.
Simply STOP. The Internet will continue, you won't really miss anything that a 20 minute catch-up read won't fix and you can simply stop giving a shit man. Who the fuck cares about this or that? Focus on what makes you happy and what you have to do. It's the only way.
But if you're commited to "staying connected" then this is a great solution:
BUT then we have this...
...so i dunno what to tell ya. Good luck!
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I see the technology overload thing in my two nieces. One is 16 and one is 12 and they can't function doing one thing at a time. The other day I was over there hanging with my brother and watching a movie. The oldest girl was watching the movie, then would get on her phone, then she walked over to her laptop for a second, then back to the movie, then phone. Meanwhile she is doing all of this with one headphone plugged in so she can listen to music while all this is happening.
When the movie was over she asked me why it ended that way and I told her had she actually watched it instead of doing six things at the same time she would have understood. She looked at me like I was crazy and she had no idea what I was talking about.